I've taught full time high school, now subbing HS, and will sub full time HS for a teacher on maternity leave starting in Jan. Teachers have to slice precious little wedges of time for themselves. Here's one way -- teach your family to love leftovers, and cook huge meals that can be recycled/remodeled more than once. Take some of your precut pieces with you to school and pin them together on your lunch break, so they are ready to go when you do get to sit down at your sewing machine. Share them with your students -- they may love to design intricate pieced designs showing their math skills. Try to learn to love hand piecing and carry a baggie with the pieces and materials for a block along with you everywhere. It's amazing how they add up, and you are allowed to machine piece hand sewn blocks together -- quilt police be damned.